Functional mastery of percussive technology in nut-cracking and stone-flaking actions: experimental comparison and implications for the evolution of the human brain

Organization of Goal-Directed Action at a High Level of Motor Skill: The Case of Stone Knapping in India

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Modeling the evolution of cortico-cerebellar systems in primates

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Individual and social learning processes involved in the acquisition and generalization of tool use in macaques

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The neural and cognitive correlates of aimed throwing in chimpanzees: a magnetic resonance image and behavioural study on a unique form of social tool use

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A neuropsychological perspective on the link between language and praxis in modern humans

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Comparative investigations of manual action representations: evidence that chimpanzees represent the costs of potential future actions involving tools

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Stone tools, language and the brain in human evolution

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The role of expertise in tool use: Skill differences in functional action adaptations to task constraints.

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How do stone knappers predict and control the outcome of flaking? Implications for understanding early stone tool technology

(2010) Tetsushi Nonaka et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

(2010) Shannon P. McPherron et al.   NATURE

Configurational approach to identifying the earliest hominin butchers

(2010) M. Dominguez-Rodrigo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The neural basis of tool use

(2009) G. Goldenberg et al.   BRAIN

A DTI Investigation of Neural Substrates Supporting Tool Use

(2009) Ashwin G. Ramayya et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

The cerebellum and its contribution to complex tasks in higher primates: A comparative perspective

(2009) Claudio Cantalupo et al.   CORTEX

Selection of Effective Stone Tools by Wild Bearded Capuchin Monkeys

(2009) Elisabetta Visalberghi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Introducing a new experimental design for controlled studies of flake formation: results for exterior platform angle, platform depth, angle of blow, velocity, and force

(2009) Harold L. Dibble et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Physical properties of palm fruits processed with tools by wild bearded capuchins (Cebus libidinosus)

(2008) E. Visalberghi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Tool use as a way to assess cognition: how do captive chimpanzees handle the weight of the hammer when cracking a nut?

(2008) Blandine Bril et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Do capuchin monkeys use weight to select hammer tools?

(2008) Cornelia Schrauf et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Neural correlates of Early Stone Age toolmaking: technology, language and cognition in human evolution

(2008) D. Stout et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES